When asked for comment, Atomic Betty had this to say:
Posted on 07/16/2025 7:04:58 AM PDT by george76
19-year-old Zayn Arcand, who describes himself as “he/they xe/she” and “demi boy, pansexual, emo artist and (high functioning) autistic,” has been arrested in his hometown of Iron Mountain, Michigan, after he was reportedly captured on a surveillance video attempting to throw a Molotov cocktail into a building where the local Dickinson Republican Party Committee has an office. Arcand goes by “Atomic Havoc” on social media.
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Arcand was charged with manufacturing and possessing an explosive and arson by the Iron Mountain Police Department. According to the press release, on Saturday, around 3:55 pm (in broad daylight), Arcand was captured on surveillance video using a Molotov cocktail in an attempt to burn down the building containing the Dickinson County Republican Committee’s office.
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Earlier today, Jeff Solka, Director of Police and Fire Services, released a statement to explain:
On Saturday, July 12, 2025, at approximately 3:55 p.m., the Iron Mountain Police Department received a report of a suspicious person in the area of 617 North Stephenson Avenue, the location of the Dickinson County Republican Committee Headquarters.
The caller observed the individual attempting to light a rag sticking out of a glass bottle, then throwing the unlit bottle at the building.
Officers reviewed footage from surveillance cameras in the area, Officers were able to see the subject on video, attempting to light a rag sticking out of a glass bottle containing liquid. The subject did not get the rag to light and threw the glass bottle at the window, causing the bottle to shatter. A second broken glass bottle was located in the parking lot. This bottle contained an unknown liquid and had a rag sticking out of the top.
Officers were able to identify the suspect in the videos and located him at his home. Upon speaking with the suspect, he admitted to making the bottles in his driveway and he threw the bottle at the building, to send a message against the corruption. The suspect was hoping what he made was flammable and would ignite.
The suspect, a 19-year-old male from Iron Mountain, was arrested and booked into the Dickinson County Jail. His identity will be released following his arraignment on the following charges:
• Explosives – Manufacture/possession of a Molotov cocktail/explosive or incendiary device causing property damage (MCL 750.211a) • Arson – Preparation to burn property MCL 750.79(d)(i)
Iron Mountain Police claim Arcand “Admitted to making the bottles in his driveway, and he threw the bottle at the building, to send a message against the corruption.”
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Fortunately, Arcand failed at his alleged attempt to burn down the building, but it doesn’t excuse the seriousness of the crime that he committed. He clearly needs to get mental health care.
After combing through Arcand’s social media accounts, it seems highly likely that he has some mental illness. Here is a post from the perpetrator’s Instagram account:
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Unfortunately, almost every school shooting and act of violence against a political figure is carried out by a loner like Arcand, who is easily influenced by outside forces to carry out acts of violence against political figures. The Whitmer “kidnapping” case is a perfect example of how easily lonely and unstable individuals can be co-opted by undercover intelligence agents to plan and even commit crimes because they so badly want to be accepted or liked. That’s another reason people like US Rep. Maxine Waters (D), and Senator Chuck Schumer (D) need to be held accountable for pushing violence against President Trump and his supporters.
The owners of the building, Barb and Ray Broullire, say they suspect the act was politically motivated and that they are relieved it wasn’t worse.
“My whole thought is accountability,” Barb Broullire said. “I want something done because there was a reason he picked this building at this office. I mean, why?”
Mr Gibberish
When asked for comment, Atomic Betty had this to say:
What he deserves is what he deserved when he wielded a Molotov cocktail, which was a bullet to safe life and property. What society deserves is a stiff criminal sentence.
Good work by the Iron Mountain Police. Now turn him over to the Feds.
There is no parole in the federal system. That will give “he/they xe/she” plenty of time to get his mind right.
Seriously, how do you f-up a Molotov cocktail?
If anything wants to go along with your stupid plan, it’s a Molotov cocktail.
Mentally ill, a criminal, and stupid.
Mike Benz IIRC has said the reason USAID funded so much trans stuff in obscure countries was because as a group they are disaffected and so the easiest to influence and turn against a regime the US was looking to see overthrown.
I wonder whether the same is operative here, explaining why we end up with so many of them as political, on-the-ground criminals.
Better still, turn it into one of those early 60s Buddhist monks who self immolated in Saigon.
I prefer the fate of many of these idiots get for him, accidentally light himself on fire.
Inzayn in the membrane!
It.
Just say it! We all know already.
Insane in the brain!
obammy threw a better pitch. Probably runs the same, though.
He should be very happy and popular in jail.
“FAFO” says it all.
After combing through Arcand’s social media accounts, it seems highly likely that he has some mental illness
Would have been locked inside an insane asylum for life and heavily drugged two generations ago.
Exactly where this creature belongs.
But what Democrats consider normal.
Truly disturbed (link from the GP article):
atomic_havoc
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cve_Q0EPFI3/2/#
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